Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability During the Long Cold War

Author/Contributor(s):	Xiang, Sunny
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	12/15/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Sunny Xiang offers a new way of understanding the American cold war in Asia by tracing aesthetic manifestations of "Oriental inscrutability" across a wide range of texts. She puts interrogation reports, policy memos, and field notes into conversation with novels, poems, documentaries, and mixed media work.